Businesses are going back to SMS messages

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Thu, 02/23/2017 - 5:46am

The internet has really changed the way we communicate over the years. Instead of phone calls, we now rely on video conferences, text messages and social media to connect with others. The same changes are affecting business, too. Live communications with customers are now conducted through more channels than ever before.

Despite these changes, a recent report suggests that a lot of businesses are still using SMS messages to connect with customers. More importantly, many brands and companies who have fully embraced the internet are going back to using SMS messages for marketing....

The Dreams Of Anne Frank

Event Date: 
03/05/2017 - 10:00am to 07/05/2017 - 2:30pm
Venue: 
Barnfield Theatre, Barnfield Road Exeter Devon EX1 1SN

In 1942, Anne Frank, a young Jewish girl, was forced into hiding with seven others in a secret annex in Amsterdam. Dreams of Anne Frank vividly brings her story to life in a poignant, beautiful and highly charged drama. Through movement, live music and song the play re-imagines and explores Anne Frank’s hidden world; a world in which she lived, fell in love, and dreamt of freedom.

Winner of the Time Out award for best children’s production during its London premiere, this imaginative play with music demystifies and humanizes Anne Frank’s story of tremendous bravery.

Exeter...

Opening date revealed for M&S Foodhall in Exmouth

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Wed, 02/22/2017 - 5:08pm

Marks & Spencer (M&S) has announced it will open a new Foodhall in Exmouth on Wednesday 29 March at 10am.

The new store located on Royal Avenue, just a minute’s walk from Exmouth train station, will offer customers the very best of M&S’s innovative, high quality food and drink products. Customers at M&S Exmouth will be assisted by a team of 59 colleagues, the majority of whom have been newly recruited from the local area. The Foodhall will offer a variety of M&S’s everyday essentials, popular prepared meals, delicatessen foods, beers, wines and spirits. For...

Investigation launched into cause of fire at Riverside Leisure Centre

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Wed, 02/22/2017 - 1:46pm

An investigation has been launched to determine how the blaze started at Exeter’s Riverside Leisure centre yesterday.

Emergency services worked together to tackle the major incident.

At around 4.20pm on Tuesday 21 February, Devon and Somerset Fire Service (DSFS) alerted police to a major fire within Riverside Leisure Centre, near to the Exe Bridges junction. A number of emergency support vehicles including around 17 fire appliances attended the scene to deal with this incident.

A number of local roads were closed, including Exe Bridges and Alphington Road, to allow...

‘Mood boosting’ books for Cranbrook Education Campus

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Wed, 02/22/2017 - 1:27pm

Pupils at Cranbrook Education Campus are relishing new books for their library, provided through Cranbrook’s Healthy Town scheme which is funded by NHS England’s Healthy New Town programme.

The thirty seven new arrivals for secondary school aged children, valued around £240, cover the Reading Well Mood-Boosting Book lists chosen by and for young people. The Reading Well Mood-Boosting Books scheme, run by the Reading Agency, is described as a national promotion of uplifting titles, including novels, poetry and non-fiction.

The ‘Mood Boosting’ books were recommended by young...

Crealy recruitment drive in Princesshay

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Wed, 02/22/2017 - 12:47pm

Devon’s multi-award winning family attraction, Crealy Adventure Park & Resort is recruiting for the busy spring and summer seasons with hundreds of opportunities available.

The recruitment drive comes alongside news that Crealy is investing further in the Park and Resort this year with the launch of new rides, attractions and leisure facilities planned. Josh Haywood, General Manager said: “2017 is set to be Crealy’s biggest and best year ever with two new rides being added to the theme park as well as a range of top class events taking place throughout the year. We continue to...

The Maynard scoops two prestigious UK awards

Authored by rachaelboard
Posted: Wed, 02/22/2017 - 12:28pm

The Maynard scoops two prestigious UK awards: - Social Media Performance of the Year - Best YouTube Performance

The Maynard School is celebrating another enormous marketing victory by winning the prestigious Edurank ‘Social Media Performance of the Year 2017’ to beat competition from all other independent schools from across the UK and Ireland.

The all-girls’ school based in Exeter, which regularly tops the DfE Performance Tables in the region whilst promoting its home-from-home atmosphere, also scooped the ‘Best YouTube Performance’ for its award-winning film #MadeForGirls...

Court says no to Civil Partnership for heterosexual couples

Authored by Sue Cade
Posted: Wed, 02/22/2017 - 12:15pm

The Court has ruled against a heterosexual couple seeking to enter into a Civil Partnership instead of a marriage. Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan, appealed the decision of Mrs Justice Andrews DBE in the High Court, who held that the restrictions under the Civil Partnership Act 2004, preventing opposite-sex couples from entering into a civil partnership, were lawful.

The Family Law Company solicitor Sasha Walton, explained: “The parties argued that, as a heterosexual couple, they did not have the same choice as a same-sex couple when choosing the route of legal recognition for...

East Devon wildlife shortlisted for national countryside award

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Wed, 02/22/2017 - 11:47am

Farmers in East Devon are being praised for their “stellar effort” in helping the endangered Cirl Bunting to increase its population in Devon tenfold in the past 25 years.

Now, the initiative has been shortlisted for the BBC Countryfile Magazine Awards in the Wildlife Success Stories category and voters are being asked to consider the Cirl Buntings alongside the River Otter beavers as their favourite wildlife project.

image004.jpgThe Cirl Bunting is a small farmland bird related to the yellowhammer, but is much rarer. Once formerly widespread across southern England and...

Repair works to Teignmouth sea wall start next week

Authored by News Desk
Posted: Wed, 02/22/2017 - 10:45am

Work to reduce the flood risk to over 400 properties in Teignmouth from flooding will get underway this month.

Teignbridge District Council is working to ensure that people, homes and businesses are protected from flooding by carrying out essential repairs and renewal to the sea defence structure at The Point.

Defence works will involve inserting 230m of steel sheet piles in front of the toe of the existing sea wall from the iconic lighthouse to the Point with a new concrete capping beam and slab helping to strengthen the wall.

This will help preserve the integrity...

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